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Breath of the Wild would certainly be at the top of my list with Horizon Zero Dawn probably second.  Axion Verge is up there as well despite the fact that I never got around to finishing it.  Lots of other indie games come to mind as well such as Limbo, Inside, Little Nightmares and Rime. 

I hate to throw remakes into lists like these since the original games are from a previous era, but since they were new from the ground up, I will also say that the Shadow of the Colossus remake and the Resident Evil 2 remake were among the best games in the past 10 years as well.   

22 minutes ago, Ausden said:

I was pumped to grab a sealed Galf

I've almost forgotten about that game.  That's probably the only gave I've ever ordered from them that I wished I hadn't.  I don't have a problem with the game or anything.  It was just that I ordered the game, and later thought to myself, "Why did I do that?"  I planned to sell it, but honestly I completely forgot I even had it until you mentioned it.  

I wasn't able to make that even, but that reminds me of when they visited Missouri Game Con a few years ago.  I was able to meet Doug and a few of they employees at the time.  It was cool talking to them.  I was also able to attend the forum they had later that afternoon.  We were the first to learn about the announcement of ESRB ratings coming to their published games.  

Others have covered it already, but this advice should apply to anything with batteries.  If you don't plan to use it for a while, get those batteries out of there.  Energizer has a high end version of their AAA and AA batteries that are supposedly guaranteed to never leak.  I guess time will tell on those, but just to be safe, I keep the batteries out of anything gaming related that isn't actively being used on a regular basis.  

OK, I thought of another one.

In Super Mario Bros. 2, when you beat Wart, scrolling is locked.  However, with Luigi, it's possible to jump high enough right before he dies to move the door off the screen.  If this happens and the scrolling becomes locked, there is no way to enter the door and officially beat the game.  

Sorry, one more post.

When I was really little, I used to think you could get soft locked in Super Metroid in that lower level where you are supposed to learn about wall jumping.  Since there is a save point down there, if you save and can't figure out the wall jumping, there is no where else to go.  I later learned what you are supposed to do, but I used to fear that area.

1 hour ago, Code Monkey said:

I got 75% through Jurassic Park on Super NES and somewhere on the ship if you open a door, then try to go behind it while it's open, you'll get stuck for no obvious reason. The door doesn't close, there are no enemies and you have to reset the game. I reset it, beat 75% of the game again and thought to myself, "I wonder if that happens every time." Yes, yes it does. On the third play through I finally beat it.

20 minutes ago, Br81zad said:

I've never beaten that game, how long does it take? 

I loved that game as a kid, but I never completely beat it.  The closest I ever got was after completing all objectives and heading to the heliport, upon getting there, I received a message that 1 raptor egg remained on the island.  I spent the better part of an hour looking for that last egg, but had to give up.  I still consider that game to be the best Jurassic Park video game.  

I know I've talked about this before, but I guess that's all gone now. 

Tomb Raider Legend on PS2.  In the King Arthur level, if you try to activate the cages hanging from the ceiling before entering the tomb, they will not function at all during the later boss battle, making the boss battle impossible.  If you save after creating this bug and you don't have any backup saves, it becomes impossible to complete the level, and all you can do is start the game over from the beginning.  I learned about that one the hard way.

I can't remember if the bug was in other versions of the game or not.  I just know about the PS2 for sure because that's the version I got stuck on.

I remember the Tim Atwood stuff really well.  For whatever reason, I followed that entire thread very closely from day one.

I always felt that Tim wasn't as much of a troll as he simply didn't understand typical forum etiquette.  I personally never had a problem with him, but I also fully understood why he received the temporary ban when it happened.  Of course a lot of people complained that the NA mods were overstepping their bounds, but I fully felt that they waited longer to ban him than they would with most people in that situation.  

That was one of those threads that continued to entertain for a pretty long period of time.

24 minutes ago, RH said:

Hahaha... Nope I couldn't.  What I would end up doing is actually buying everything CIB, I'd store the cases out of light, and make secondary cases for the ones I'd actually want to play form time to time, so they can set on my shelf.

That's actually what I'm doing with those of mine that are complete, and a lot of my Sega CD games are complete.  But of course, several are disc only.  

I buy disc only, ONLY when the price is right, and I have a decent chance of never seeing the game again in the wild.  

Awesome.  I really need to go back and finish the first.  I made it probably 80% of the way through, but just never got around to finishing it.  

20 hours ago, Sign Collector Guy said:

A good chunk of my Sega CD Collection is in Wii U jewel cases with custom artwork. I really like it. Those damn OEM cases are brutal. 

 

I also keep my Sega CD games in blue DVD cases, but mine aren't Wii U cases.  They are just a blue case that I found online.  They actually match really closely to the Sega CD blue.  I also found yellow cases for my CD 32x games.  

1 minute ago, Br81zad said:

To this day I've never played a 3DO. 

If you can get your hands on one cheap like I did, it's worth it, otherwise, I wouldn't bother.  There are a lot of fun games, but not really worth the current asking prices.  

That's a nice set.

I've always loved the home console versions of the Paper Mario games (even Super Paper Mario), but I've never played any of the Mario & Luigi games.  I've always wanted to, but never got around to it.  I wish they weren't on portable devices.  That would make it easier for me to play them.  I know that I can play Superstar Saga on the GB Player, but that doesn't help for the others.  

Caveman Games on NES.  I had several friends who had this game, and I always wanted it just because it looked cool at the rental stores.  I remembering playing it at their house and not really understanding how to play it properly, but still wanting it.  Sure enough, many years later when I started picking up NES games as an adult, it was on my early list to grab.

Also, I knew ONE guy that had a 3DO while it was still an active system.  He bought it right after the first round of price drops.  It seemed awesome at the time.  We always played Gex and PO'ed.  I eventually got a PS1 instead, but I was super happy when I realized that a slightly better version of PO'ed was available for the PS1.  I played the hell out of that game.  

The big difference with CD jewel cases was that they were used for other purposes outside of games and since it's impossible to prove that a case hasn't been changed (outside of new/sealed), it doesn't have the same impact as swapping out a PS2 case for a DVD case.    

The nice thing about PS1 games was that they did not have a unique case, so the repro case issue doesn't apply.  I just buy replacement cases in bulk, usually 50 to 100 at a time and replace only as needed.  The only thing that's truly difficult to replace is the insert for PS1 games that came in a double jewel case, but only have one disc.  The other side of the case had a piece with a PS1 logo instead of the part that holds the disc in place.  I was always surprised that they made that since it was so unique to PlayStation.  Fortunately, they are common enough considering all copies of Gran Turismo had one.  

SMB 2 has always been my favorite.

With that said, I can't think of a single 2D Mario game that I haven't enjoyed.  I love them all.  But I've never been able to get into any of the 3D Mario titles.  Something about it just doesn't work for me.  

The 5th episode was the first episode where I didn't care for the side characters.  The woman at the repair shop, and the "partner" bounty hunter both annoyed me.  

Also, I really love the opening and ending music, and I like the added art during the ending sequence.  

42 minutes ago, mbd39 said:

SMB3 is impressive for NES, but Nintendo cheaped out by not including a battery save. 

 

 

 

No kidding.  There is no excuse for SMB3 not having a battery save.  I remembering keeping my NES on all night long and being afraid that it would break.

3 minutes ago, Splain said:

I guess I don't get the limited print runs. Don't you make more money selling 8001 games than printing 8000? Is it a supply issue? Is it a demand issue? Are unpopular games more likely to sell simply because they're limited? Sorry if that already got talked to death on NA, maybe I should find the old thread and read through it first.

They key is that they have to sell everything they make.  Unsold copies are bad for any business, but it's a killer for a small company.  In a perfect world, they would match the supply to the demand.  Since that's nearly impossible, they are better off selling a smaller number of copies and knowing that all will sell, than to make too many have to sit on leftover stock.  

That doesn't mean LRG always gets the production numbers within a reasonable % of the demand.   Night Trap on PS4 was a good example of that.  The production run was well below what the demand turned out to be.  They could have made a lot more money if they had correctly anticipated the demand.  But at the time, they were still too new to take that kind of risk.  That's part of the reason why they have been slowly switching over to more pre-orders.  I think they will continue to move in this direction, especially once the Vita games are gone.  

5 minutes ago, Splain said:

I see Limited Run games in my local Best Buy often. If that's unusual, I should buy more of them lol.

 

That will be common for most of the games that were available through pre-order.  You won't see it on any of the games that had a specific print runs determined before the games became available on LRG's site.  

I've heard a rumor floating around on social media that the final LRG Vita release may be offered free to anyone who has purchased every LRG Vita release up to that point.  Has anyone heard anything similar?

On 11/19/2019 at 6:41 PM, PineappleLawnchair said:

You hear that folks, without LRG, we would've NEVER had the N64 version of Star Wars Episode 1 Racer, or physical copies of Turok, Jak 1, 2, X Combat Racing, Nuclear Throne, Soldner X2,  YS origin, etc et al,. They're providing a SERVICE to us, by re-releasing bootlegs and incredibly small amounts of games to scalpers.

Very few games have ended up in the hands of scalpers.  This is proven by the small percentage of these games that end up listed on eBay or other market sources.  If you don't like the bootlegs, don't buy them.  Unless anyone is forced to buy something they don't want, you have nothing to complain about.  Quit acting like a child.